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The ruling United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre faced a major embarrassment on Sunday, when its alliance partner, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, said it would keep out of a Parliamentary delegation going to Sri Lanka to assess the situation there.

In our search for the remnants of Tiger Terrorism in Mullaitivu, we travelled from Colombo via Puttalam, Anuradhapura, Vavuniya and after travelling another 15 miles about 30 km to Puliyankulam, we took a diversion to Nedunkerni and to Mullaitivu. The final destination Mullaitivu is nearly 30 miles (60 km) from Puliyankulam.

All Indians are safe in Afghanistan after heavily-armed Taliban suicide bombers unleashed a wave of coordinated attacks in Kabul and three other cities and the situation is being closely watched by the Indian government.

On April 15,102 Taliban attacked Western embassies and Afghan parliament in Kabul . Taliban fired rockets and assault rifles in the direction of the US Embassy, Taliban. NATO headquarters and other official buildings as gunfire and explosions rocked the heart of the Afghan capital.

The President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday on a state visit to Sri Lanka from 15th to 17th April 2012. He was accompanied by several senior Ministers and PLO Representatives including the Minister of Foreign Affairs Riad Malki.